Dementia: Expenditure

Paul Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what Government funding was provided for medical research into dementia in each of the last five years; and what percentage of the health research budget this represented in each year.

Dawn Primarolo: The most recent information available is shown in the following table.
	
		
			  Expenditure on dementia research 
			   Department of Health  (£ million)  Medical Research Council (MRC)  (£ million)  Total  (£ million)  Expenditure as a percentage of NHS research and development and MRC budgets 
			 2001-02 2.9 6.6 9.5 n/a 
			 2002-03 1.6 6.6 8.2 n/a 
			 2003-04 1.1 7.4 8.5 n/a 
			 2004-05 19 6.2 25.2 2.4 
			 2005-06 18.3 6.7 25 2.3 
			 n/a = not available 
		
	
	The Departmental figures for the years from 2001-02 to 2003-04 relate to national research programme expenditure. They do not include the part of the research and development allocations made annually at that time to NHS providers and spent on dementia research. Information was not collected prior to 2004-05.
	The national research network on dementia and neurodegenerative disease, funded by the Department's National Institute for Health Research, was launched in August 2006. Its first year costs are included in the Department's aggregate expenditure figure for 2005-06.